Danielle M. Barbour, who is listed in state records as Danielle Crosier, had charges accusing her of running license plates through a police database dismissed last year in Rensselaer County. Barbour ran plates of vehicles that had their tires slashed. She is the girlfriend of Vincent Igoe Jr., a former Albany County sheriff's sergeant who was idnetified as a person of interest in some of the vandalism incidents. Barbour was fired in October 2015 from her job as a public safety officer for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, where she used a state law enforcement computer database to run the license plates, according to court records. less

Danielle M. Barbour, who is listed in state records as Danielle Crosier, had charges accusing her of running license plates through a police database dismissed last year in Rensselaer County. Barbour ran plates ... more

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Ex-deputy acquitted of violating protection order

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A former Albany County sheriff's sergeant was acquitted of charges that he violated an order of protection last May when he was accused of driving by his former girlfriend's house and staring at her.

Town Justice Norman C. Massry handed down the not-guilty verdict last week following a three-hour bench trial in Town Court.

A police arrest report stated Igoe's former girlfriend, who lives in Colonie, saw Igoe driving by her house on a Friday night. At the time, police said the alleged act violated of an order of protection filed in Albany County Family Court.

Igoe, 42, has been accused by his ex-girlfriend of incidents of vandalism at her home dating to April 2015, according to police reports. Police used surveillance cameras and GPS devices to try to catch the person responsible. Igoe was never charged in the incidents. Rensselaer and Troy police also have been involved in the investigation, which included allegations that the vehicle of the woman's boyfriend was vandalized.

"We have three different police departments involved here," said Stephen DeNigris, Igoe's attorney. "They're still following Vinnie around. ... This woman was making it up as she goes along."

Igoe is suing his ex-girlfriend in state Supreme Court, claiming she defamed him by filing police reports that identified him as a suspect in multiple vandalism and stalking incidents. He is also suing Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple and a former county attorney, Thomas Marcelle, claiming they violated a "confidential" settlement agreement two years ago related to his abrupt resignation from the department.

The claim seeks up to $20 million in damages and was filed in response to a Times Union story that disclosed Igoe's resignation came as the department investigated allegations he left threatening and racist messages on the voicemail of a man associated with his ex-girlfriend.

Igoe left the Albany County Sheriff's Department two years ago while under suspension for a 2014 incident in which he used a Taser on an unarmed teenager who was on his knees with his hands raised following a high-speed chase.

In 2010, Igoe was the subject of a grand jury investigation for fatally shooting an unarmed immigrant near Albany International Airport. He was cleared of wrongdoing in that case.

Igoe's live-in girlfriend, Danielle M. Barbour, testified at his trial last week that she was driving his pickup truck the night that Igoe's ex-girlfriend believed she saw him behind the wheel. Barbour has also been drawn into the police investigation of Igoe.

Barbour was arrested in Troy in November 2015 on charges of using a police database to run license plates of vehicles that belonged to friends of Igoe's ex-girlfriend. One of the vehicles, which belongs to the woman's boyfriend, had its tires slashed twice the same month that it was run through the state database to determine its owner's information, according to police reports. No charges arose from the tire slashing.

Barbour was accused of using the state criminal justice portal when she worked as a public safety officer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was fired from her job two months after the plates were checked in August 2015. Barbour, under questioning by detectives from Colonie and Troy, denied that she ran the plates for Igoe. The office of Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel E. Abelove agreed to adjourn Barbour's criminal case for six months and the charges were dismissed.